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Article: The Role of a Lifetime; Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles
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- Los Angeles Sentinel
- Article date:
- November 3, 2004
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Los Angeles Sentinel
11-03-2004
Jamie Foxx gives an astoundingly accurate depiction of the blind R&B
legend, Ray Charles, who died in June, but not before meeting Foxx and
giving the 36-year-old actor his blessing for 'Ray.'
For 15 years the filmmakers struggled to get the movie made about the life
of Ray Charles. Finally, the money was there and the movie was a go. Now
they had to find the right actor to play the role.
As fate would have it, producer/director Taylor Hackford had produced a
documentary in 1996 called "When We Were Kings," about Muhammad Ali's
famous fight with George Foreman in Zaire. He knew well all the people in
Ali's camp, including trainer Bundini Brown. In 2001 Michael ...